Legal Opinion
Horn v. New York Times
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided March 21, 2002PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
*3OPINION OF THE COURT
Ellerin, J.
The question presented by this appeal is whether a physician whose employment is terminated because she refuses to share patients’ medical records with individuals not authorized to have them has a cause of action against her employer for wrongful discharge. We cannot accept defendant’s argument that nothing in the law prevents it from firing the associate director of its medical department for refusing to divulge confidential patient information. Instead, we hold that a physician may claim an exception to New York’s employment-at-will doctrine based on an…
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